Word: petulante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Petulant Purge. By then, the whole affair was beginning to look more than a little silly. It got even sillier. With straight-faced pride, the Tribune announced that 43 persons had offered to pay for gift subscriptions to the White House. Reporter Wise, presumably under orders, handed Salinger a contraband...
MR. SCHWARTZ REPLIES: I regret the petulant language to which Mr. Rowsey refers, but I do not think its excision weakens my case. I argued that, for various reasons, the Trade Bill is unlikely to have any appreciable effect on this country's unemployment problem: and that to pretend it...
Into the coffee port of Santos last week steamed the Dutch freighter Ruys. Aboard was ex-President Jānio Quadros, 45, whose petulant resignation seven months ago plunged Brazil into chaos, disillusion and disrepair. He came home in triumph. When the Ruys docked, Jānio, tanned, a bit flushed, and...
In Rosenkavalier she was by turns amorous, petulant, rueful, forgiving, giving vibrant conviction to her understanding of the Marschallin as "the typical sensuous woman." And with her pure soprano under fine control, she was even more impressive in Capriccio, the gentle "conversation piece for music" that stands as Strauss'...
Britons' biggest complaint against Princess Margaret is that she has all the expensive tastes of oldtime royalty, but shows little appetite for the official duties by which a modern English princess earns her $42,000-a-year salary. Even before her return to London, British mums noted grimly that...